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That’s exactly what’s happening at Rosie the Riveter High School in Long Beach, California, the first trade school geared toward women. The founder of the school, Lynn Shaw, a former miner, steelworker and longshoreman with a doctorate in electrical engineering,...
Tags: Rosie, traditionally male, Long Beach, Education, United States home front during World War II, Women in World War II, Rosie the Riveter
The Long Beach charter school was created in 2007 to help prepare teenage girls for careers as welders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians and other trades. Today, its 50-member student body includes girls and boys, but its organizers still attempt to...
Tags: Riveter High Long Beach, Rosie, Riveter High School, Lynn Shaw, nontraditional job, charter school, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, Education, United States home front during World War II, Women in World War II, Vocational education, Poster, Rosie the Riveter, J. Howard Miller
This by far is my most favorite propaganda image. Norman Rockwell's interpretation of Rosie the Riveter, as a feminine powerhouse that symbolized the women's place in the World War II U.S. workforce on the May 29, 1943 cover of The Saturday Evening...
Tags: Rosie the Riveter